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Cake day: Jul 01, 2023

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Many tvs have microphones built into them or their remotes.

Some are even sending screenshots of what they are displaying to their backend servers.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2449198-smart-tvs-take-snapshots-of-what-you-watch-multiple-times-per-second/


On iOS the web rendering engine is the same one used in Safari, yeah.

But everything built on top of that is custom.


My first and current distro is Pop_OS and it’s been a bit of a pain in the ass. I need to run terminal commands to get Bluetooth to work, Rocksmith is a lost cause, my display signal dies randomly, forcing a restart.

Thinking about Bazzite, but read this article and maybe Ubuntu is just easier, for now?

(Nvidia gpu giving me pause over which will support it better)


Joke: The first app to get rid of is iOS.

(I’ve been making iPhone apps for a decade, let me rant!)



FYI to you or anyone who doesn’t know: If you are browsing the internet on an iOS or iPadOS device you are forced to use the Webkit rendering engine. Chrome, Safari, Brave, Firefox. All of them use Webkit to display web pages because you won’t get an app on the App store if you use anything else. The EU is forcing Apple to allow other browsing tech through the app submission process, so we will see alternatives in the future.